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John Hurt – An Extraordinary Sensibility | The Great Acting Blog

18.02.2017 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175661512" align="aligncenter" width="540"] John Hurt (1940 - 2017)[/caption] Tolstoy explained it to us when he said that a true work of art was the transmission of a feeling experienced by the artist. The viewer, in turn, receives the work, and so experiences the same feeling. John Hurt is...

The Great Acting Blog: “My Definition Of A Great Actor…”

18.10.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

...Is one who turns walking into an art form. Here's Marcello Mastroianni in Mauro Bolognini's Il Bell Antonio... RELATED Performance And Mis En Scene - Marcello Mastroianni In Divorce Italian Style Acting Ambivalent - Marcello Mastroianni In Down The Ancient Stairs...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Principled Actor”

26.07.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Peter Sellers' performance in Hal Ashby's 1979 film, Being There, is quite brilliant. It's one of eye-watering precision and discipline, and, like all great performances, it feels inevitable; the role could not be played any other way nor by any other actor. It came as...

The Joyful Collaborator – Cary Grant | The Great Acting Blog

18.01.2016 , The Great Acting Blog , 23 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659777" align="aligncenter" width="540"] Cary Grant with Katharine Hepburn[/caption] "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant. So would I." - Cary Grant My earliest memory of Cary Grant is in Hitchcock's wonderful and underrated To Catch A Thief, where he played reformed jewel thief, John...

A Lesson From Catherine Deneuve In Belle De Jour – Accentuate Your Individuality

30.08.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Subscribe | @GreatActingBlog [caption id="attachment_175659579" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Catherine Deneuve in Luis Bunuel's Belle De Jour.[/caption] All art is truth. Something cannot be art if it doesn't ring with truth. And the truth is usually provocative, usually uncomfortable - that's why we rarely like facing up to it. The...

Marcello Mastroianni In Divorce Italian Style | The Great Acting Blog

14.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

[caption id="attachment_175664582" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Marcello Mastroianni in Divorce Italian Style.[/caption] Marcello Mastroianni plays Baron Ferdinando Cefalu, a nobleman living an idle life "filled with longing and nostalgia". In public, he is respectable and reserved, a model of self-control. Privately however, he is desperate to escape his...

The Great Acting Blog: “A Miraculous Transformation”

13.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

http://youtu.be/uN4Di8DEPf8 See Frederic March's miraculous transformation from Dr Jekyll to Mr Hyde, in Rouben Mamoulian's 1931 film...

Catherine Deneuve In The Hunger – Compassion And Acceptance

02.06.2015 , The Great Acting Blog , 20 Comments

Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam Blaylock, a centuries old vampire in the classical tradition. She lives elegantly in an elaborate townhouse with John (played by David Bowie), her partner of the last couple of hundred years or so. They spend their afternoons performing Shubert in the...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Extraordinary Poetry Of A Great Actor’s Face”

16.09.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

When a general fatigue sets in, when we start to feel emotionally deprived, it means that it's time to nourish ourselves with the things that fascinate us and inspire us - reading, knowledge, cinema, music, new ideas, whatever does it for you. Our mind and spirit...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Trademarks Of 12 Famous Actors According To IMDB”

23.08.2014 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Some of these are sweetly naive, and their bluntness renders them somewhat absurd, but nonetheless they offer a fascinating distillation of the actors themselves. The trade-marks are as much to do with the actor's own nature and what they bring to each role, as they are...

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